Erika Christensen Quotes

I can't deal with all her questions and also be President.

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You'll always regret it.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don't get finicky about broken nails. I don't let small things affect me. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. There's no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there's no pressure on me.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.